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Geriatric Medicine
Geriatric medicine is the medical specialty dedicated to the comprehensive healthcare of older adults, with particular focus on the complex interplay of multiple chronic conditions, functional decline, polypharmacy, frailty, and cognitive impairment.
Overview
Unlike disease-specific specialties, geriatrics adopts a holistic patient-centered framework, pioneering the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment — a structured diagnostic and care-planning tool that evaluates physical, cognitive, psychological, and social dimensions and has demonstrably reduced hospitalization rates and improved functional outcomes.
Why it matters
With adults over 65 constituting the fastest-growing population segment in most nations and projections suggesting this cohort will double globally by 2050, geriatrics sits at the intersection of medicine's most critical challenges and has profoundly shaped care models across specialties through its systematic approach to multimorbidity.
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